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Title: Jerome Tobis papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.037
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.8 Linear feet
(3 boxes)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1996-2010
Date (inclusive): 1970-2012
Abstract: This collection comprises professional papers of Jerome Tobis, former professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. The papers include meeting agendas, minutes, notes, correspondence,
clippings, grant proposals, and other materials related to Tobis' work with the fields of geriatric medicine, complementary
medicine and integrative medicine, medical ethics, as well as the UC Irvine Emeriti Association, primarily between 1996-2010.
Creator:
Tobis, Jerome S., 1915-2012
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Jerome Tobis Papers. MS-F037. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Transferred by UCI Librarian Linda Murphy.
Processed by Audra Eagle Yun and Chris S. Ervin, 2012.
Jerome Tobis was professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University
of California, Irvine. His career at UC Irvine included founding the Department of Geriatric Medicine, chairing the Medical
Ethics Committee, and contributing to a number of significant studies on physical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation.
Born July 23, 1915, in Syracuse, N.Y., Tobis earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1936 and graduated
from Chicago Medical School in 1943. As a captain in the Army during World War II, he served as a doctor. Tobis was named
chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York Medical College in 1948. In 1961, he became
chairman of a similar department at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, and in 1963 joined the faculty of Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in the Bronx.
In 1970, Tobis joined the UCI medical school faculty as a professor and founding chairman of the department of physical medicine
and rehabilitation. He also was the medical school's founding director of geriatric medicine, a position he held from 1980
to 1986, and chaired the ethics committee at UCI Medical Center from 1986 to 2000.
Tobis was co-author of the 1970 book "Cardiac Rehabilitation," the first on the subject. He also served as the principal investigator
for the first scientific research to show the effectiveness of spinal manipulation in improving lower back pain. The research
was published in 1981 in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Tobis also worked on studies of traumatic brain injury
and the causes of falls by the elderly, among other topics.
Los Angeles Times, Obituary, February 11, 2012, "Dr. Jerome Tobis dies at 96; UCI professor, physician and researcher."
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises professional papers of Jerome Tobis, former professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. His career at UC Irvine included founding the Department
of Geriatric Medicine, chairing the Medical Ethics Committee, and contributing to a number of significant studies on physical
therapy and cardiac rehabilitation. The papers include meeting agendas, minutes, notes, correspondence, clippings, grant proposals,
and other materials related to Tobis' work with the fields of geriatric medicine, complementary medicine and integrative medicine,
medical ethics, as well as the UC Irvine Emeriti Association, primarily between 1996-2010. The collection also includes a
small group of photographs of Tobis and colleagues and some biographical information.
This collection is not arranged.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tobis, Jerome S., 1915-2012 -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives. -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. Center for Emeriti and Retirees -- Archives . -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. College of Medicine -- Archives.
Alternative medicine.
Booklets -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
Conference on Aging
Correspondence -- 20th century.
Geriatrics.
Grant proposals -- 20th century.
Heart--Diseases--Patients--Rehabilitation.
Integrative medicine.
Medical Conference
Medical ethics.
Monographs
Portrait photographs -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century
Promotional materials -- West (U.S.) -- 20th century.
Public health -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Scrapbooks